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R. D. HAYES.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNEB. 1915.

Patented July 1, 1919.

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ROBERT n'HAYEspE N W HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A'ssIGNoE. To INDEX VISIBLE, INCORPORATED, or NEW HAVEN, CONNE TICUT, A CORPORATION on NEW YORK.

To all whom it may concern: 1 I

" Be it known that I, ROBERT D. HAYEs, a

citizen of the United States, residin in the city and county ofNew Haven and tate ofvisible index embodying a plurality of record holding members or cards which, in the normal position, are held in overlapped relation so that only the marginal'portions of the cards or members are exposed to View. The invention also has special reference to a system of this kind in which each card or other record holding member instead of having the names and other data imprinted or written directly thereon serves as a holder or-carrier for a separate record slip or card Lon which the record matter is written.

These record slips are usually of thin paper, and they can be inserted in and removed from the holders without the necessity of removing the latter. from their support or supports. In the particular example hereinafter described,'each holder is provided with a slip retaining means constructed of celluloid orsimilar transparent material so that when the slip or insert is placed in the holder the entire face of the former is visible. Thus practically the ,Whole surface of the slip or insert can be utilized for holding record matter which is either visible at all times, or can be made visible by an erg impriate manipulation of the holders. y improvements can, however, be used to advantage in other applications or connections.

One of the primary objects of the invention is'to provide improved means for removably attaching a record slip or insert to a holder.

Another object of the invention is to furnish an index with overlapping holders in which the record slips are retained in place very conveniently and securely between the holders.

A further object which I have in view is the provision 'of an improved form of holder having a slip retaining pocket so'applied thereto as to utilize a large part of the holder surface, and in particular, all of that part of the holder adjacent the side margins.

To these and other ends, the invention Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed a... s, 1915. Serial No .32,957.

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Patented July 1 1919.

consists in the novel features and combinations of parts to be hereinafter described and .claimed.

In the accompanyin drawing,

Figure 1 is a front'e evation of a plurality of overlapped record members embodying my lmprovements, showing a portion of the supportmg strip;

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the parts shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged front view of the two upper holders shown in Fig. 1, with the support omitted;

Fig. 4 is a considerably 'enlarged section on line H of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a front view of a single holder or card; and

Fig. 6 is a small diagrammatic view 0 the pocket forming strip prior to its application to the-holder or card.

I have shown my improvements applied to an index of the general type shown in the Fisher Patent No. 1,048,056, dated Decemport 8, as in the patent just mentioned, and

these tongues serve as a means fornesting the cardsor members together in a predetermined overlapped relation with their lower margins exposed so as to be visible at all times. It will be understood, however, thatin some aspects of the invention the method of grouping and supporting the cards or holders is more or less immaterial.

In the form shown, each holder 6is provided with a pocket 9 at its lower exposed margin, which pocket is formed usually of celluloid or similar transparent material. By preference, I take a comparatively narrow, strip 10 of celluloid of greater length than the body of the card and attach it to the lower marginal portion of the card in the manner shown in Fig. 5, by folding inwardly and backwardly certain portions 10 of the strip which overlap the card at the ends of the latter, after which such folded end portions 10 of the strip are attached to the rear surface of the card by some suitable means,

preferably by eyelets 11, -one at each extremity of the strip. In the form illustrated, the strip or blank 10 is cut in the shape illustrated in Fig. 6, so that when the end portions 10 are turned inwardly and backwardly they can be attached to'the card by means of the eyelets 11 at points above the pocket on the front face of the card, 6.,

-' 1 above the upper margin of that portionof 10 the strip which traverses the front face of I the card. The eyelets 11, or their equivalents; are preferably placed at some distance from the side margins of the card so that i I they will not tear out, and owing to the fact that they are located above the main part of the pocket, they can be readily set in place by a suitable tool or machine. The lower edge of the strip 10 is folded backwardly and upwardly to form a flange 12 which embraces the lower edge of the. card 6, and holds the strip firmly in lace. In the form shown, the flange 12 is of slightly less width than the card, 1ts ends being cut off at the same angle as the end portionslO.

' The pocket formed by the strip 9 serves to receive a suitable slip or insert which is thereby held on the front face of the card or holder. In the form shown, I employ a slip 13 of comparatively thin paper substantially coextensive with the front face of the card. The lower edge portion of the slip 13 extends down into the pocket 9, while the upper edge of said slip is substai'i tially coincident with the upper edge of the card or holder, as shown in Fig. i. That portion of the slip 13 which extends into the pocket 9 is readily visible through the transparent material of which the pocket is formed and can, therefore, carry any desired with the tongues 7 of the card immediately above it, as shown in Figs; 3 and 4. In other words, each slip or insert is held in place between a pocket on what might be termed the free margin of the card and one or more tongues on the nextoverlapping card.

One of the main advantages" of my particular pocket construction resides in the fact that the entire width of the card may be utilized in accommodating the insert or record slip. Again, as above intimated, the

record sli can be made substantially coextensive with the card or holder and all por.. tions of said slip are either visible, under normal conditions, or may be made visible by appropriate manipulation of the cards. The retaining strips 10 extend around the side edges of the card so as to avoidcany rough edges or inconvenient projections at those points, and the eyelets are so located that they do not interfere in any way with the ready insertion and removal of the insert. In addition to the record slip or insert, the-pocket is adaptedto hold any suitable signal element or marker; for example,

i when the index is used in a'bank, and the account of the person whose name appears on the card has been overdrawn, a sultable .marker is placed in the pocket, in association with the name, in order to indicate that fact. Usually this is done by using a piece of colored; celluloid which is slipped over that portion of the record slip in the pocket so as to obscure the name to a certain extent, and thereby call attention to it without, however, making it illegible.

Without limiting myself to the construction shown, I claim:

'1. A record holding member comprising a card, and a transparent pocket forming strip extending along the margin of the card and around and behind the side, edges thereof; substantially as described.

2. A record holding member comprising a card, and a pocket forming strip extending horizontally along the margin of the card 1 and around and behind the side edges there 1 of,'and around and behind the horizontal edge thereof; substantially as described.

3. A record holding member comprising a card, and a pocket forming strip extending over the front face of the card along the lower margin thereof, and extending around and behind the card at the side edges there of, and also at the lower edge thereof; substantially as described.

4. A record holding member comprising a card, a pocket forming strip extending along the margin of the card and around and behind the side edges thereof, and fasteners for securing thejextremities of the strip to the card; substantially as described.

5. A record holding member comprising a card, a pocket forming strip extending along the .margin of the card and around and behind the side edges thereof, and fasteners for securing the extremities of the strip to the card at the rear face of the latter; substantially as described.

6. A record holding member comprising a card, a pocket forming strip of transparent material extending along a horizontal marside edges thereof, and eyelets for securing the extremities of the strip to the card at the rear face of the latter; substantially as described.

7. A record holding. member comprising a card, and a pocket forming strip extending along one margin of the card and having gin of the card and around and behind the offset extremities secured to the card at the opposite face of described. s

8. An index card havin a pocket forming strip extending along a Ixorizontal margin thereof and around and behind the sideand around the side edges of the card, and.

fasteners for securing the extremities of the strip to the rear face of the card at points offset from the pocket on the front face of the card; substantially as described.

10. An index or card having a pocket forming strip extending across the lower edge portion thereof at the front face of the card and around the side edges of the card, and eyelets for securing the extremities of the strip to the card at the rear face thereof, said eyelets located above the upper edge of the pocket; substantially as described.

11. In an index or file, the combination of a support, a plurality of cards mounted flatwise on saidsupport in overlapped relation and having their marginal portions exposed, transparent pocket members extending across the respective cards from side to side and'around and behind the side edges of the respective cards, and record slips or inserts in the respective pockets; substantially as described.

12. An index card having a transparent strip extending across the front face thereof and around and back of at least one of its side edges; substantially as described.

13. In an index or file a card having a pocket on one of its horizontal edges, a slip or insert having one edge located' in said pocket, and the'opposite edge extending to the latter; substantially as theopposite edge of the card, and another card overlapping the first card adjacent the last named edge thereof and holding said slip in said pocket; substantially as described.

14. In an index or file, a plurality of record members having tongues nesting them together in overlapped relation, one of said members having a pocket, and a record slip or insert held in place between said pocket and the tongue on the adjacent card; substantially as described.

15. An index card having a transparent strip extending around the lateral edges thereof; substantially as described.

16. In an index or file, the combination of a support, a plurality of cards mounted flatwise on the support in overlapped relation and having their margins exposed, and pocket forming strips extending across the front faces of the respective cards, each of said strips extending around and behind at least one of the side edges of the corresponding card; substantially as described.

17. An index card having a pocket forming strip'on the front face thereof extending around and behind at least one of the side edges of the card, that portion of the strip at the rear of the card being offset, and means for securing the offset portion to the card; substantially as described.

18. An index card having a pocket forming strip on the front face thereof provided with an offset extremity secured to the card at: the rear face of the latter.

19. An index card having a strip on the front face thereof adjacent one of the horizontal margins with? an offset portion extending around to the rear face of the card,

- and means for securing said ofi'set portion to the rear face of the card.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand on'the 7th day of June, 1915.

. ROBERT D. HAYES. 

